Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1963 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Entered at the Decatur, Ind:, Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr.: President John G. Heuer s Vice President Chas. E. Holthouse ,Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates By Mail, in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $10.00; Six'months, $5.50; 3 months, $3.00. • & By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining CStmties: One year,* $11.25; 6 months, $6.00; 3 months, $3.25. By Carrier, 35 cents perweek. Single copies, 7 cents. A Tragic Day As horror and shock spread quickly through Defl catur Friday, at the news of the appalling assassinaI tion of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, the I hearts of the entire community opened up to the young I widow and orphaned children of the 35th president of I the United States, the first Democrat president to be I murdered, the first president to be struck down since I McKinle y in 1901 > the second Democrat of the I eighu .presidents to die in office, the youngest presiI dent to die, three years younger than James A. Garfl field. I Most of us proudly recall that bright April I 13, 1959, when then-Senator Kennedy, on a whirlwind, two-day tour of Indiana, closed his tour I with an evening in Decatur at our community center. • I We remember what a proud rrioment'it was when I Dr. Harry H. Hebble, our county Chairman, led Sen. I John Kennedy through the group of national reporters I — even the New York Times was represented here — fl and how he and then — Sheriff Merle Affolder proceded I up the aisle to the speaker’s podium, where Robert H. I Heller and then-Mayor Robert D. Cole presided. I Candidate Kennedy, just starting his victorious fl campaign for the nomination, against great odds, I pointed out to an overflow crowd of more than 500 I how progress was needed, and described the new fronI tier that he saw in the future. I The warmth of the visit even included, at I the airport, a temporary delay in the entire motor--1 cade which prominent Decatur Democrats Jesse I G. Niblick and Miss Verena Niblick stopped the cars, and shook hands with the future president. The president has come to be recognized, as those I of us who heard him then realized, as a forceful, infl telligent, educated man. I As each of us prays for the new President, I on whose shoulders tremendous burdens now fall, let us remember that Lyndon B. Johnson, has reI ceived more background and on-the-job training I than any other vice-president, according to national reporters. He has been a member of the ■ executive committee of the National Security Council; he presides over the Space Advisory CounI cil; he is chairman of the committee on equal I employment opportunities; he heads the peace corps advisory council; he has presided over the U.S. I Senate nearly three years; up to last DecemI her, he had represented the president in 22 foreign I countries and has covered many more since then; I He has been a regular daily visitor to the White J, Housei he stood for vigorous counter-action, when < Russia shipped offensive missiles to I With this tremendous background, President fl Johnson is admirably equipped for the presidency. I Let’s give him the chance he deserves to do his best I job. Let’s all back the new presidefil. I And let us strive to see that society places I some limits on those members who are so unstable J as to feel that violence is called for when his views I clash with another. Qur great martyred president so loved his fellow man that he has given his enI tire governmental salary to charity since he was I first elected aU. S. Congressman in 1946, more I than half a million dollars. Yet unstable persons I are allowed at large to prey on those who would labor for no return other than the knowledge that I they are doing their best for their fellow man. I That’s one of the tragic enigmas of our representaI tive Democracy. I -

20 Years Ago Today Nov. 23, 1943 — Adams county has exceeded its quota in the ~w«. drive but .JJjcatvr. i* still short in its Community Fund drive. A new Ford sedan has been delivered to the city of Decatur to be used as police car. Tom Lutes, Decatur high school student, who has been ill for the past week with a streptococcic infection, is reported as mudh improved. Berlin is scene of desolation, after devastation by Allied bombers. Adams county high school basketball results: Decatur Yellow Jackets 36, ' Hartford 28; - Berne 38, New Haven 36.

Pres. Kennedy Approved Slow-Moving Caravan DALIJVS (UPI) — President Kennedy himself made the decision that gave an assassin the chance to kill him. The original plans for the Dallas tour called only for a fast ride from the airport to a lunch at the Trade Mart. But Democratic leaders urged him to ride in a motorcade through tthe heart of the city, to give the voters a smile and a wave. Some advisors had misgivings remembering the violence that greeted U.N. Ambassador Adlei Stevenson last month. The final decision was up to Kennedy. He approved the slowmoving motorcade that carried him to a date with a sniper's bullet.

Merriman Smith (Continued from Page 31 son came up to the table where Roberts and I were trying to record the history we had just witnessed. • -r “I’m going to make a short statement in a few minutes and give you copies of it,” he said. “Then when I get on the ground I’ll do it over again.” It was the first public utterance of the new Chief Executive, brief and moving: “This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me it is a deep personal tragedy. I know the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help—and God’s ” When the plane was about 45 minutes from Washington, the new President got on a special radio-telephone and placed a Call to Mrs. Rose Kennedy, the late President’s mother. “I wish to God there was something I could do,” he told her, “I just wanted you to know that.” Then Mrs. Johnson wanted to talk to the elder Mrs. Kennedy. Gives Love And Prayers “We feel like the heart has been cut out of us,” Mrs. Johnson said. She broke down for a moment and began to sob. Recovering in a few seconds, she added, "our love and our prayers are with you.” Thirty minutes out of Washington, Johnson put in a call for Nellie Connally, wife of the seriously wounded Texas governor. The new President said to the governor’s wife : “We are praying for you, darling, and I know that everything is going to be all right, isn’t it? Give him a hug and a kiss for me.” It was dark when Air Force One began to skim over the lights of the Washington area. The plane touched down at 5:59 p.m. EST. Roberts and I stood under a wing and watched the casket being lowered from the rear of the plane and borne by a complement of armed forces body bearers into a waiting hearse. We watched Mrs. Kennedy and the President’s brother, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, climb into the hearse beside the coffin. _ Z Roberts and I were given seats on another ’copter bound for the White House lawn. In the compartment next to ours in one of the large chairs beside a window sat Theodore C. Sor.ensen, one of Kennedy’s closest associates with the title of special counsel to the President. He had hot gone to Texas with his chief but had come to the air base for his return. Sorensen sat wilted in the large chair, crying softly. The dignity of his deep grief seemed 3 to sum up all of the tragedy and sadness of the previous six hours. As our helicopter circled in the balmy darkness for a landing on the White House south lawn, it seemed incredible that only six hours before, John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been a vibrant, smiling, waving and -active man. —— — — Tearful Wife Presses Ring To JFICs Hand SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPD — Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy pressed her wedding ring into the hand of her dead husband, seconds before his coffin was closed, Rep. Henry B. Gonzales, D-Tex., said today. Gonzales described the incident in a radio interview on station KTSA. "She kissed her husband and touched his hand.” the congressman said. “She removed her wedding ring and placed it in his hand." The carsket was closed .then, and the sorrowful return to Washington begun.

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■ • ’nL M Jack Lemmon, who won an Academy Award nomination for his comedy role in “Tbe Apartment” has another fun-packed part in "Irma la Douche” now showing through Monday at the Adams theater. He is cast as a French cop who patrols the beat where Irma, portrayed by Shirley MacLaine, has her establishment. Due to the highly sophisticated nature of this hilarious Technicolor production, it has been recommended for adults only. ' Family Tearful Al Tragic News HYANNIS PORT, Mass. CUPI) — A hazy autumn moon hung low over a rambling darkened house in this Cape Cod ‘ recort community Friday night. The silent, peaceful scene hid great sorrow. The house was owned by President Kennedy, slain by a sniper’s bullet. In another house nearby, the parents of the fallen. President were consoled by two of their other children. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Eunice Shriver, wife of Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, hurried here from Washington after learning of the President’s assassination. There were few other witnesses to the grief of the President’s parents, former Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy. Their house was not visible from a police barricade that shunted all traffic Sway from the Kennedy compound. The rest of the compound, in- 1 eluding the President’s summer home near the barrier, appeared to be in darkness. The only movement in the shadowy scene was that of guards standing watch in the glare of floodlights in front of the Preskient’s house. Earlier in the day, preparations had been underway for a festive Thanksgiving celebration which the President and most of his brothers and sisters had planned to attend. The celebration was an annual affair, an autumn highlight for the close-knit Kennedy clan. But Friday night the shadows bid no exciting expectation — only gloom. The President’s parents were of thru; famous ..son's, death by' officials at Parkland Hospital in Dallas after a workman at the compound heard news of the shooting on the radio, a source close to the family said. The elder Kennedy, 75-year-old former ambassador td Great Britain. was napping when he was told that his son had been shot down. The once robust diplomat has been an 'invalid-, since Suffering a stroke in December 1960. His wife Rose, 72, had played golf at the Hyannis „ Country Club earlier but was home when word came of the tragedy.

PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, The entire community of Decatur is grief-stricken at the news of the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ♦ . I . \ " « WHEREAS, the body of the 35th president of theJJnited States will lie in state until Monday, \ NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Donald F. Gage, do hereby declare this period of time to be a period of mourning for the city of Decatur, and the city offices will be closed Monday in memorial tribute to our President. I ask your prayers for the president, his family and this nation. DONALD F. 'GAGE, Mayor" City of Decatur

Johnson Sworn Al 3:38 P.M. By MERRIMAN SMITH (UPI) White House Reporter WASHINGTON (UPI) — Lyndon Baines Johnson became the 36th president of the United States Friday at 3:38 p. m. EST in the hot, stuffy presidential F compartment of a parked Air Force jet transport on the edge of Love Field — the Dallas Municipal airport. With his wife, Lady Bird, at has right, and the late President Kennedy’s widow, Jacqueline, on his left, Johnson took the solemn constitutional oath of office from U. S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes, 67, an old friend of the Johnson family. Extending a small Bible she brought with her as she was rushed to the airfield from the Dallas federal building, Judge Hughes told ,the vice president, “hold up your right hand and repeat after me.” Johnson placed his left hand over the small black - covered Bible, raised his right hand and repeated: ‘‘l do solemnly swear 1 will faithfully execute the office of the president of the United States to the best of my ability and to preserve, uphold, and protect the Constitution of the United States, so help me -God." He turned and kissed his wife on the cheek, giving her shoulders a squeeze. ..Then he put his arm around Mrs. Kennedy kissing her gently on her right cheek. Johnson had deliberately delayed the ceremony to give Kennedy's widow time to compose * herself for one of the ' gruelling aspects of her husband’s assassination. The ceremony took only two minutes. As members of the group of 27 persons jammed in the compartment started to shake his hand, Johnson seemed to back away. “Now, let’s get airborne,” he said. Shoe Shiner Lemon juice as a shoeshine works wonders. Spread a few drops on black or smooth, tanleather shoes, then rub briskly with a soft cloth. It gives an elegant finish. -I

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Central Soya Co. Employes Honored Forty-nine Central Soya em-* ployes who have completed up to 20 years of service at the Decatur plant were honored Friday night at a special banquet .held at the Decatur Community Center. Featured speaker was Rec. Phillip Philbrook, pastor of the First Baptist church in Fort Wayne. Pins signifying the completition of 10, 15 and 25 years service were given to all the employes, whose service to company totals 870 years. Plant manager Tom Allwein made the presentations. Children Taken To Mrs. Kennedy WASHINGTON (UPI) — The children of slain President Kennedy were taken from the White House Friday night, apparently to spend the night with their mother in a secluded hideaway; Caroline, who wil be six on Wednesday, and John Jr., who becomes three on Monday, were whisked out. of the White House at 5:30 p.m. EST by their nurse, Maude Shaw. About three hours later, it was announced that Mrs. Kennedy would go into “seclusion” and would not spend the night at the White House. She was riding in the auto when her husband was shot down «in Dallas and had accompanied the body back to Washington and to Bethesda Hospital where it was held overnight. Throughout the afternoon and mid-evening, the two Kennedy children were unaware that their father was dead. Acting press secretary Andrew J. Hatcher declined to divulee the whereabouts of either Mrs. Kennedy, Caroline or John Jr. One of Mrs. Kennedy’s secretaries said she did not know where the children were to spend the night. Mrs. Kennedys Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincolss, have stepfather and mother, Mr. and a home in the Washington area. Both children were in the White House when word of the shooting reached Washington.

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